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... never recede when their leaders obtain unresisted ascendency , but are precipitated on , like the career of guilt in an individual , from one ex- cess to another , till the extremity of suffering restores the lead to the classes ...
... never recede when their leaders obtain unresisted ascendency , but are precipitated on , like the career of guilt in an individual , from one ex- cess to another , till the extremity of suffering restores the lead to the classes ...
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... never again able to separate the cause of on the Roy- France from that of the Jacobins , who then ruled its destinies . The people , ever led by their feelings , and cial Effect alist and often incapable of just discrimination , though ...
... never again able to separate the cause of on the Roy- France from that of the Jacobins , who then ruled its destinies . The people , ever led by their feelings , and cial Effect alist and often incapable of just discrimination , though ...
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... never , during the subsist- ence of that generation , regain its influence ; and the opposition to the ruling power during such a crisis , can hardly avoid such an imputation . By a singular coincidence , but from the influence of the ...
... never , during the subsist- ence of that generation , regain its influence ; and the opposition to the ruling power during such a crisis , can hardly avoid such an imputation . By a singular coincidence , but from the influence of the ...
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... never ceased to regret the triumphs 1793 . obtained in so bad a cause . What signifies it whether the King is named Louis , James , or Philip ? If the lives of the prisoners in the Temple are endangered , France will still find a ...
... never ceased to regret the triumphs 1793 . obtained in so bad a cause . What signifies it whether the King is named Louis , James , or Philip ? If the lives of the prisoners in the Temple are endangered , France will still find a ...
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... never happy unless he had secured the conviction of all the accused . He exhibited in the pursuit of this object an extraordi- nary degree of ardour : he seemed to consider his per- sonal credit as involved in the decision on their ...
... never happy unless he had secured the conviction of all the accused . He exhibited in the pursuit of this object an extraordi- nary degree of ardour : he seemed to consider his per- sonal credit as involved in the decision on their ...
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Page 572 - Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time Sarmatia fell unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe...
Page 132 - That it is a high infringement of the liberties and privileges of the Commons of the United Kingdom for any lord of Parliament, or other...
Page 340 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 424 - Committees were alone permitted to issue tickets, authorizing purchases of any sort; one species of bread, of coarse quality, was only allowed to be baked ; and to prevent the scandalous scenes which daily occurred at the bakers' shops, where a number of the poor passed a part of the night with the cord in their hands, it was...
Page 285 - Cabinet, in opposition to the demand and earnest wish of Cobourg and all the allied generals, which occasioned this fatal division. The impartial historian must confess with a sigh, that it was British interests which here interfered with the great objects of the war, and that by compelling the English contingent to separate for the siege of Dunkirk, England contributed to postpone for twenty years its glorious termination.
Page 400 - It is in an especial manner remarkable, in this dismal catalogue, how large a proportion of the victims of the Revolution were persons in the middling and lower ranks of life. The priests and nobles guillotined are only 2,413, while the persons of plebeian origin exceed 13,000!
Page 261 - ... if the waves should throw them undrowned on the shore. The citizens, with loud shrieks, implored the lives of the little innocents, and numbers offered to adopt them as their own ; but though a few were granted to their urgent entreaty, the greater part were doomed to destruction. Thus were consigned to the grave whole generations at once — ' the ornament of the present, the hope of the future.
Page 52 - When they arrived at the foot of the scaffold, she had the generosity to renounce, in favour of her companion, the privilege of being first executed. " Ascend first," said she ; " let me at least spare you the pain of seeing my blood flow.
Page 354 - On another occasion, twenty women of Poitou, chiefly the wives of peasants, were placed together on the chariot ; some died on the way, and the wretches guillotined their lifeless remains. One kept her infant in her bosom till she reached the foot of the scaffold ; the executioners tore the...
Page 96 - Orleans demanded only one favour, which was granted ; namely, that his execution should be postponed for twenty-four hours. In the interval he had a repast prepared with care, on which he feasted with more than usual avidity. When led out to execution, he gazed for a time with a smile on his countenance, on the Palais Royal, the scene of his former orgies ; he was detained above a quarter of an hour in front of that palace, by order of Robespierre, who had in vain asked his daughter's hand in marriage...